A spokesman said: "The prime minister and President Obama spoke at 9pm tonight [Sunday].

The Avalon Theatre and Nickel Arcade

Many were translators or interpreters for the military or defense contractors. The bloody civil war in Iraq between the country's Sunni and Shiite sects resulted in a steady flow of refugees to the U.S. Texas leads the nation in resettlement. Iraqis are now the biggest group in the last fiscal year?and already surpass the Texas total resettled in the previous year, says Celia VanDeGraaf, the executive director of the center.

Would he have made the same decision if it were a business trip? Probably not.

It looked downright seditious in the summer sun, like a Russian wrestler on a California beach.